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was just. not been done. and i think until you know even in the medical school curriculum you know. when to we talk about hiv you know important it is going to go into the next two mission. is not just ignorance and still associated with the disease but a lack of compassionate care. by nineteen ninety five h.i.b. infections among black americans had surpassed white america. blacks accounted for forty percent of all newly infected h.i.v. cases. the most startling discovery was to learn that african-american women accounted for a greater proportion of new aids cases among african-americans overall in two

thousand and three. it rose to become the number one cause of death for black women ages twenty five to thirty four and percepts this day. after ten years from now. my husband and three year old daughter and my d.h. of twenty nine discovered to have aids my third child was born very sick. we didn't know what was wrong with her no one was able to tell us what was wrong she was in and out of dol spittles and by the time she was about two my husband began to get sick my husband wasn't feeling well he had a cough we kept going to different doctors they kept misdiagnosing him first they said he had allergies they gave him allergy shots then they said he had tb they

tested him and he's fine it doesn't have to be after about a full year of trying to figure out what was wrong they then said ok your blood count is really no he wanted to be emergency room and they said well you probably have a bleeding ulcer so let's admit you to the hospital and let's check you for you know where that also is and we can take care of it they kept misdiagnosing him because he was a family man he was married we owned a home we had children in private school so we didn't fit that stereotype of what people with aids are h.i.v. look like people have histories people have done things in their lives my husband did do. but he had been clean for over ten areas so they didn't see any marks they didn't see anything that they thought was suspicious i guess that's the

assumption and sold him ever asked him so what happened is that people's perception of who got a scot in the way. so by the time they figured it all out he did not have a bleeding ulcer and they then said ok we need to ask you some other questions you know have you ever done drugs and those type of questions and then he said yes several years ago when i was in the service. and they tested him and he came back with full blown aids. so even while my husband was sick and dying and a half but all you know i made up i did like many of us that you know i made up stories of what he had i wasn't telling the truth. because of discrimination because of fear because of him i don't want to people to be afraid of me he die on january first new year's day of course it all made sense then what was wrong

with the baby and then she died. on into it of that year. i tested myself and my two other children thank god they were healthy and they did not have the virus but i did when i was diagnosed i was very sick i was ab pounds i had no t. cells and i was extremely ill so i was diagnosed with aids diagnosis not an a.t.v. diagnosis i was given less than two years to live in the course of six brief months lost her husband of ten years first three year old baby girl and was herself

diagnosed with aids. when she reached out to her family i'm blessed that i have a family that i do we don't talk about it but i've never felt like they were afraid to be around me for many of those newly infected with hiv and aids silent except in spite family and friends is often not enough after everything happened i went to one support group then it was all guys they were nice men. and i was the only woman. problem with that was many of those guys were talking about things like how do i tell my parents or my family that i am homosexual and well they were those were dear conversations and their fears and their discussions of course when i brought up i am in a panic i just lost my husband my baby i have an eight in a four year old i'm going to die soon what do i do with my kids i have to stop

working i'm now on disability i went from two incomes to a fixed income a disability check i'm trying to figure it all out so of course i think i'm going to die because that's what i was told and for women for mothers our our focus now becomes not even about herself. it's about our children what's going to happen to our children my children are going to be orphans i can't even stand to be in the house with them and watch them playing because i was so heartbroken that i'm going to be leaving and i couldn't identify with the guys in the group so i figure i need to talk to some women and see if my only wonder still are with this or or or what recognizing that her doctor was seeing other female patients you that h i v. came up with an idea i asked my doctor if i could put a flyer in our home in our office. some of the women so long the whole

a flyer in her office i put a secret phone line in my home because lots of family and friends didn't know i was dealing with this issue and lo and behold the phone started ringing and i started we started talking to each other just on the phone none of us wanting to show our faces and as we became more comfortable i would meet them in a coffee shop and we started giving each other support that way and then started to support in my home where women will come together bring their children and we will just talk rye prepared for death and all of those things they were doing pretty much a. women's group soon revealed. concerns. from a support group who quickly realized that services for women were non-existent if moms need to get to the doctor she was given a token to get on the bus to the doctor. she was given enough tokens to take the

children to the doctor with her so basically she had no childcare she had no transportation so she couldn't go to the doctors she ended up not seeing a doctor so we became a network of women and we shared our our very limited resources we shared our trends. and we help each other try to appointments i ended up keeping lots of children in my home. they don't get put into foster care system so i would say driving children to all different schools all over they see in maryland including an addition to mine so they don't get put into foster care system. that's reluctant a handful of shy women soon blossomed into a forceful group of brave souls. no longer able to accommodate the growing number

of each ivy positive women in her home. wrote a grant got funding and started the women's collective in washington d.c. . women are caregivers we are taking care of not only our children. parents who got sick and now we have to try our own health and. to take care of everybody. and i think we need to set up a system that is more helpful. and support women around the support system. to help them to be able to take care of themselves.

to better understand why h.i.v.'s thieves are still so persistent in the black community we check in with you. straight after all it is they who will determine the face of the disease in the years to come. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you

glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. mission and free accreditation free transport charges free. range month free risk free studio time free. download free broadcast morning video for your media projects a free media dog r.t. dot com. here the reindeer is everything for the burgers and when it suffers people do their best to help go. to mock. the distances are. on the roads are

tough and unpredictable. need be and try. me is eve if. you two meet. six. i think education is definitely one of the more important pieces to have because people are getting wrong information in their sprains wrong information. we learned

about the technical aspect of hiding catch it when it is what it stands for why. not like percentages and things like that who are mainly affected by. yes just like general education knowing that stuff like when i took such that in school we never really learned about each ideally we just learned like about puberty and about how to put a condom on but they don't really teach you stuff like hiv prevention and who falls into that category of who has it we're minimum incensing we're going to show you are great men having sex they don't shoot at all here you know it's very important to know about going to times about man and woman having sex and the risk of what happens whenever a female on a femur are male male be to broaden it a little bit larger so we know you know we need we need to be straight you need to be gay but we need to know information isn't there i think it's also important that

parents talk more with their children about it we don't talk a lot about that with us kids even today it's still kind of hard to broach that subject with the young people but it is so important. i'm a famous letters like you do in a but you will be a fool she's made it all the time to do mom i'm a virgin turned through grubby i did that doing the right you going to get a mug that i'm pretty sure that's not cancer that's how you catch it ok it's so she found out how to really get it she was like a lot that was a game as disease i thought they were given that i thought that's how you get it just from doing that i didn't have a big increase my nose and i get it i find it funny how when parents automatically assume that your child is going to be shared i mean and they kind of force me to it that is why a lot of conversations about hiv and aids don't really it doesn't really happen in the household because you're taught. you're kind of taught by your parents to be

sure you and you know to talk about anything that involves your sex life because you're not street is conneally you know taboo to be. into your house it's a good i'm not going to talk about you know things that i can get you know by having sex because my mom doesn't want to hear about me having sex with another guy and for me is not even about just having sex with the same sex or opposite sex it's not having sex at all so it doesn't get beyond if you don't have sex and i'm not evil wins you get married type stuff just on sex and you know procreation what if i'm thinking about it you know i'm interested and all i can talk with my parents about it i don't feel like i can talk to them about that because they already say what they expect it is so now i have sex so i'm like ok if i do have sex what will happen i lack your pride but what about this i might because. i don't know what they are i'm young i don't know and weak slim all h.i.v. we don't need to get to that because it's a don't have set i think many more open dialogue about it people are still very

very nervous about talking about their sexual health and their sexual behavior talking about sex is pretty normal with my group of friends but when they consummate h.i.b. and like educations that s.t.'s on it. that's not their home when it's really awkward but we do talk about it it's not like it's not existed but usually when i hear other people talking about issues in life all some minus unattractive or ugly will pass on their person not their sauce or. all this stuff so it's usually in a negative not inspiring or educational life but when my personal friends my close friends issues are like look we've been educating people or we're just talking about trying to figure out what what we know or was truest manse of just saying i'm a child be on my place and all the blame on the other person all the blame will myself and both of those are really unhealthy and can like f. up and i see a world. where if the people manage to stop. with the abundance

of information now available about hiv. number noses up the statistics they believe that as with vitamins all they have to do is pop a pill if they should become hiv positive. community like we do desensitize ourselves so much from aids i mean people as i always a mental disease if you can manage it you've got to have deep pockets that manage it i mean if you don't have insurance because i don't think the average person can pay fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars in rent and still pay two hundred dollars a month for medication and for those for whom money is not a concern there is a physical cost to taking drugs to fight hiv take four pills i take one pill i take a bactrim pill because to keep infections and stuff away and then i take. the opposite which is helps with the pain in the morning. and so i take that as this

clock in the morning i wake up thirty to take medications because. i did two hours to recover from second the medication and i had to go to have my pill container and i'm out of water in the mornings when i wake up i just open the bottle take the pills the water may back down let the side effects go through this. stomach pain tiredness everything that go through just let it all go through enough to two hours i'm good. data is that they even well treated even with the best drugs someone with aids is going to live a shorter life than someone doesn't have a type you know i have a lot of friends on these drugs at this point both in africa and here and you know if they could go back and change that and live a life free of a trivium i know for sure for certain that they would. with thirteen percent of the population yet we have the highest rate of infection again it goes into not

a single answer. if i look at how blood pressure what we be i looked at colon cancer where will we be if i look at breast cancer where will we be if i look at. it to one it is clear that the tremendous growth of hiv and aids in america's black community is driven by many factors yet no matter whom we spoke to physicians clergy political leaders and those afflicted with the virus it was clear that the real culprits behind the epidemic are ignorance miscommunication and most importantly a collective silence about how it is transmitted what it means to live with hiv and its phenomenal spread across black america. if we sincerely want to help the spread of this virus this is

a problem that frankly is substantially preventable if there were really good public health campaigns if people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to have a lot less h i feel a lot less human suffering and you would and that would mean a lot less energy and resources both in that a societal level but also personally trying to deal with it down the why would someone thirty seconds i was in london in the mid 1980's and you couldn't turn on the television without seeing the commercial about a chevy h.i.v. a child be you know can protect yourself be attested etc you know day after day after day after day after day after day after day. that's a public health education in my view that we have not hand at a level of intensity through the public out they do cation. still don't have the bill we are still talking about any crease in the number of cases and we need to talk more to people who other people trust in the communities like for example the

hair salon the barber shop so we go there all the time we have conversations in there about everything you know so you know getting the right information it's in places like that places of worship getting the correct information that's a beer can can really help kind of hope this disease and they do think. that more conversations better you don't necessarily need leadership from the church but you really need is leadership from somebody right so well that happen to have been the case in the community of the responder and the purveyor of here is quite right larry kramer was a real leader in this conversation and in zimbabwe and in uganda in congo there were singers who are leaders in this conversations and other places or political leaders people who didn't maybe could be almost anybody can write maybe somebody has to stand up and take this on it doesn't matter who it is as long as i don't personally care as in his her system. kelly and i think what's going to eventually happen as far as in our community is that we need to start letting young people and

even young people just people in general understand the power of their voice because eventually was going to happen is that. the new media is going to be the cell phone ok because as they see things put the video you know because now cell phones you could upload photos directly to you tube all these different things is that now they have the power to tell the story. as more people living with hiv step forward to tell their stories we will no longer be able to ignore them and pretend we are safe the conversation must be taken to the schools inside the homes and throughout the community to eradicate the myths and fears that feed this preventable disease. today african-americans account for fifty percent of all new h. i.v. infections every year unless we start talking to each other we will become dependent

on drugs to live. with succeeding generation. start the conversation. in the elevated to high school don't see. this. but the answer. is to see. just like there. was. a child.

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